On Aug 26, 2:52 pm, Ian Parker wrote: > There is a saying - the customer is always right. The remarks of > Harold (and to some extent Xi Cheng) prove that Google believes the > opposite.
How could my claims say anything about what Google believes? Do you still believe I "really" have something to do with them? Come on, you should know better, Ian Parker. But it's true, I get a little annoyed at people who come in here because they found a translation that was vaguely offensive, and demand that the entire translation engine (which is provided for free, it doesn't have so much as an ad sidebar) should be shut down until the problem is fixed (never mind that machine translation is hard, such things aren't easily fixable withing the framework, and that accidentally offensive translations have existed from time immemorial). Josh and Xi Cheng aren't allowed to get annoyed at such stupidity - or at the very least, they aren't allowed to express it in public. I am, because I don't have anything to do with Google. Whether there's any point in it is another matter, I'll admit that. But without calling out some of the more blatant foolishness, I would probably be less motivated to try to explain things to the polite newbies. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
